I thought I'd start a new topic since it seems like a slow weekend. I posted one pic in the previous thread about raku kilns. here is a few more.
There are comments in the gallery with these photos under raku kilns. http://ceramicartsda...album&album=130

This kiln fired on split 2 x 4 scrap from a truss manufacturer. We would gather the wood in a pickup truck.
There is a schematic drawing of this kiln in Steve Branfman's Raku; a Practical Approach , 2nd. Edition.

This makes me wonder...does wood-fired raku have a different quality (visually/physically/aesthetically) than "cleaner" fueled raku?

I don't think there is much difference in the final results. You don't get fly ash as you would in a high fire wood kiln.As for cleaner, this kiln was fired with scrap bits of 2 x 4 and fired very clean as in little smoke, no fossil fuels. I built it during the first Spring of teaching when I had a very limited budget of $175/year.